loonatic112358:bborchar: I never had, nor will I ever, read a "cleaned up" version of a book nor let my children read one. Especially those books, because you lose the whole point if the white people people aren't using derogatory words to the black people. It's not nice, but it wasn't nice back then.

You lose the perspective of what sort of assholes people were towards other races when you sanitize the text

And gain it back by the authority figures and community advocates who give you the santized version.

bborchar:I never had, nor will I ever, read a "cleaned up" version of a book nor let my children read one. Especially those books, because you lose the whole point if the white people people aren't using derogatory words to the black people. It's not nice, but it wasn't nice back then.

You lose the perspective of what sort of assholes people were towards other races when you sanitize the text